Cigarette pocket



p 1944- 'A. T. BARDETAL 2,358,137

CIGARETTE POCKE'IS Filed Sept. 16. 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 P 1944- A. T. BARD EI'AL CIGARETTE POCKETS 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Sept. 1.6-

Patented Sept. 12, 1944 Michigan'City, Iridz, assignors to RelianceMamufacturing Company, Chicago, 111.; a corpor'a tion of Illinois ApplicationSeptember 16, 194-2, Serial,No..458.538

Our invention relates generally to cigarette pockets and'more particularly to cigarette pockets for work shirts and other articles of wearing apparel. I

It is an object of our invention to provide adurable cigarette pocket which may be fabricated from a minimum amount of material.

A further object is to 'providea cigarette pocket which is spacious without the use of extra cloth.

Another object is to provide a cigarette pocket having an improved closure and an improved bottom construction which cooperate to facilitate the removal of either a single'cigarette or an entire package ofcigarettes;

Another object ofour invention is to provide a unitary cigarette. pocket with'an improved flap construction-which permits easy removal of either asingle cigarette or the entire package off ciga-.

rettes.

A still further object is the provision of a pocket which is simple in T design and economical to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages Will appear from the following description.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front view partially broken away, showing a shirt embodying our novel pocket;

Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. 1, showing the manner by which a single cigarette is removed from the pocket;

Fig. 3 is a vertical, sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a View showing a horizontal section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a View of a vertical section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3, showing the cigarette pocket unbuttoned and empty;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the pocket is formed;

Fig. 7 is a plan View of the flap reinforcement; and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary perspective view broken away to show the lower corner construction of our pocket.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that we have illustrated an embodiment of our invention wherein the new and improved cigarette pocket comprises a pocket element l0 and a reinforcing element secured by suitable stitching to each other and to the front of a work shirt [4. The pocket element is originally cut in the form of the blank shown in Fig. 6 and has straight parallel sides 16 and l8, a straight bottom 20 perpendicular to the sides and a tapered top having inclined edges 22 and 24 meeting at a centrally located-apex 26. The sides and "top .edges of the pocketelement l 0 --are folded. back .upon themselves along .the dot dash lines .28, 30,.1'32land 34% provide side.hems,36:and 38 (Fig. 4). .and.

the same width asthepocket element-rand has parallel-sides 42 and 44-, a straightbottomrw perpendicular. to-the sides and 44- and-a tapered top.having inclinedJedgeSAAB and Ell-meeting at the apex 52; The inclination :Of-the-edgeS 48am.

50- is the-same as thatJof-the edges 2212\nd. of. r

the pocketelement 10..

The side edges of thevreinforcing.blank are turned back uponthemselvesalong the dot dash lines 54 and 56 .toformside. hemscorresponding to the-sidehems .36- 'and .38 of -the..pocket-element Ill..- The top,edg'es of the reinforcedi'elementmn are .also folded. back uponzthemselves .=a10l1g..the dot dash lines 5B'and 60"to form a tapered top hem 62 (Figs. 3 and 5).

The reinforcingelement I2 is now placed upon the upper end of the pocket element It in such manner that the tapered upper edges of the two elements lie in the same planes. The elements l0 and. [2 are so positioned that the in-turned edges of one element are in contact with the inturned edges of the other element and the hem portions of the two elements are secured together by parallel rows of stitching 64 and 66, as is clear 1y shown in Figs. 3 and 5. The buttonhole 68 is then formed in the reinforced upper end of the pocket element It].

The reinforced pocket element is then placed in an upside-down position on the shirt front and with the reinforcement out. The reinforced pocket element is then secured to the shirt front by parallel rows of stitching I0 and 12 (Fig. 5), which are adjacent to and parallel with the edge 20 of the pocket element. The reinforced pocket element is then folded back upon itself along the dot and dash line 14 and the side edges of the reinforced pocket element are secured to the shirt front by parallel rows of stitching 1B and I8, and 82. The button 84 is next secured to the shirt front and the pocket is complete.

When the pocket is empty it lies flat against the shirt front and presents a neat and smooth appearance. The position of the lower end of the pocket under these conditions is clearly indicated in Fig. 5. This figure. however, shows the upper end of the pocket as being iinbuttoned, whereas the upper end of the pocket will normally be buttoned regardless of whether the pocket is filled or empty.

Our novel cigarette pocket is designed to carry, in a neat and convenient manner, a standard package of cigarettes and in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, we have illustrated our pocket as containing a cigarette package 86. Figs. 3 and 4 in particular illustrate the neat and convenient V manner in which our pocket accommodates itself to the cigarette package and supports this package without tending to crush or damage the package or its contents. In Fig. 4, one corner of the upper end of the package is illustrated as being torn away to facilitate removal of the cigarettes therefrom.

An important feature of our invention resides in the arrangement whereby one or more cigarettes may be easily withdrawn from the cigarette package without unbuttoning the tapered upper end or flap part of the pocket. In order to remove a cigarette it is only necessary to push upwardly on the bottom of the pocket, as indicated in Fig. 2, until the upper end of the cigarette package is immediately below the button 84. The fingers of the other hand can then readily remove one or more of the cigarettes from the package, as clearly shown in this figure.

The removal of the entire package of cigarettes from our new and improved pocket is also easily effected. After unbuttoning the flap, the finger of one hand is placed against the bottom -of the pocket and the entire package is urged upwardly so that the fingers of the other hand may grasp the upper edges of the cigarette pack age as they protrude beyond the lower edges of the tapered flap. The cigarette package may then be entirely withdrawn from the pocket.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that we have provided an easily constructed, unitary cigarette pocket which can be fabricated from a minimum amount of material and which has many advantages heretofore available only in pockets made by a more expensive method and with a considerably greater expenditure of cloth.

While we have described our invention in connection with a preferred embodiment thereof, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that numerous variations and modifications may be made from the structure disclosed without departing from the underlying principles of our invention. We, therefore, wish to include within the scopeof the following claim all constructions by which substantially the results of our invention may be obtained by substantially the same or equivalent means. 7

Having illustrated and explained an embodiment of our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is as follows:

In combination with a shirt of the class described having a piece of material forming the front thereof, a second piece of material'secured to the-shirt front and cooperating therewith to form a pocket adapted to hold a package of cigarettes and like articles, said second piece of material having an overhanging bottom secured at its upper edge to said first-mentioned piece in a horizontal plane remote from the upper end of said pocket, said second-mentioned piece of material having sides stitched throughout their length to said first-mentioned piece of material, said stitched sides extending downwardly to a horizontal plane substantially below said firstmentioned horizontal plane, said second piece of material having a tapered upper end provided with a central apex, and means for detachably securing said tapered upper end to said first .piece of material to form a closed pocket for preventing accidental dislodgment of any contents therefrom. Q g

ALBERT T. BARD.

ALVIN J. WENZEL. 

